DrK Crimson Throne IC

[wilphe]

Winifred decides to just try and buy time whilst the real warriors finish off the other bone-snake...thing

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Guarded attack

(1d100)[72] 31 Attack
(1d10)[9] +3

(1d100)[1] Dodge 57

[rax]

"Whoever created you, they're due a reckoning with the Lady of Graves!" Cassian curses the undead monsters before him as he continues trying to hack them to bits - starting with the one that attacked him.

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Full action: Swift attack (1d100)[92], (1d100)[68] vs. WS 52 (plus outnumbering bonus +10 if Long Knife assists?)
Damage (1d10+4)[12], (1d10+4)[14]

Ulric's Fury if applicable
(1d100)[67], (1d100)[40]
(1d10)[10], (1d10)[2]

Pre-emptive Parry with shield (1d100)[27] vs. 62 (WS 52, Defensive +10)
Pre-emptive Dodge (1d100)[93] vs. 34 (Ag 44, mail -10)

Wounds remaining: 13/13
Fortune Points remaining: 2/3

[Haval]

Andrei is finally able to focus on the creature itself and not the swirl of dark magic that accompanies it. He'll do his best to destroy the one in combat with Winifred.

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Was going to wait just in case but I might as well take an action with that 12.

Half Action - Channel
Half Action - Magic Dart the snake in combat with Winifred

vs. Wp 51 (+10 Aetheric Attunement) (+10 Derro Necklace)
(1d100)[25]

Casting roll 6+ or 5+
(1d10)[9]

Any damage
(1d10+3)[7]

[farothel]

Ciraneoth is still mesmerized by the snake movement.

[DrK]

One of the snake like undead beasts explodes into bone shards as the magic dart hits it and shatters the magics holding it together. The second one trying to attack Cassian is lithe avoiding the sword blows with serpentine grace before mindlessly lunging towards Cassian

No point attacking as you have blocked with the shield

But meets only the shield. It hisses dramatically casting strange shadows in the flickering torch lights

For fear this turn, if you fail just take a -10 on any actions this round rather than rolling for inaction

[wilphe]

Winifred is surprised but not complaining when Andrei's magic shatters her opponent and moves to engage the one fighting Cassian and Long Knife

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(1d100)[26] 61 (3:1 odds)
(1d10)[8] +3

[farothel]

Suddenly Ciraneoth found some hidden reserves and he swings into action. Moving in, he swings his sword at the critter, keeping his shield ready for a counter attack.

Spoiler: OOC actions

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half-action: move into combat
half-action: attack (1d100)[19] vs 64 (outnumbered at least 3:1) for damage: (1d10+4)[12]

[rax]

Seeing Andrei's missile shatter the monster, Cassian allows himself a small sigh of relief before piling into the remaining snake-thing with a series of short, controlled cuts.

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Full action: Swift attack (1d100)[86], (1d100)[81] vs. 72 (WS 52, outnumbering bonus +20)
Damage (1d10+4)[7], (1d10+4)[14]

Ulric's Fury if applicable
(1d100)[72], (1d100)[70]
(1d10)[4], (1d10)[1]

Pre-emptive Parry with shield (1d100)[11]] vs. 62 (WS 52, Defensive +10)
Pre-emptive Dodge (1d100)[39] vs. 34 (Ag 44, mail -10)

Wounds remaining: 13/13
Fortune Points remaining: 1/3

[Haval]

Andrei nods in satisfaction before turning to the second construct. If he stared directly at it for long enough perhaps he could understand how to disrupt the magic that was keeping it up. Could an actual Magister of Shyish collapse something like this with a wave of his hand?

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Half Action - Channel
Half Action - Magic Dart the other snake

vs. Wp 51 (+10 Aetheric Attunement) (+10 Derro Necklace)
(1d100)[38]

Casting roll 6+ or 5+
(1d10)[3]

Any damage
(1d10+3)[10]

[DrK]

Even as the first of the snake skeletal beasts falls Cassian distracts the second one, jumping and lashing around it as it winds and flaps near him. In the confusion Cieranoth and Winifred are able to pile into it from both sides, blades hacking great flecks of bone from the beast before again, another magical dart comes rushing in with a thunderous force severing its connection to shysh as the magic is drained from it it collapses in a shower of bones upon the floor. Long knife looks down upo it and kicks the head away from the spinal column, "The spirits do not like this desecration of the dead."

[wilphe]

Is everyone ok?

Winifred heads cautiously down the passage to the door and checks it out, listening behind it if all seems well

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(1d100)[88] 41 (+10 listen)

[farothel]

"I'm okay," Ciraneoth said. He was embarrassed at being afraid of a couple of skeletal snakes and wanted to make up for it. So he switched to his bow again and took the lead to move further down, once everybody was okay and ready to move on.

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perception: (1d100)[46] vs 49 (or 59 if visual)

[DrK]

Leaving the dead snakes behind Cieranoth and Winfred move down the arched corridor past all he grinning skulls that make up the bulk of pathway. Creeping towards the door on the right hand side of the corridor at the far end of the skull filled corridor. Moving slowly Winifred stretches towards the door, but Cieranoth's sharp eye spot the raised stone flagstone and then the metallic nozzles in the mouths of two skulls... a trap!

The elf deduces the raised flgstone may be linked to the skulls that look like they will spew forth some sort of noxious or corrosive chemical!

[farothel]

"Trap," Ciraneoth warned the others, "let's get some stones and a wooden plank and cover this so nobody steps on it, unless someone can disable it without it going off?"

If nobody can disarm it, he will find a few stones, put them around the raised stone and then use the 'table' those Derro were sitting around he will cover the stone so that stepping on the table will not trigger the trap. That way they can move through the corridor at speed if needed without accidentally tripping it. Quite useful if someone gets gripped by terror and runs away.

[Haval]

Is everyone ok?

'Only embarrassed.' Andrei replied. 'Once we're done here perhaps we can seal the entrance behind us.'

At the discovery of the trap, 'Someone really doesn't want us to be here.'

[wilphe]

Heck I don't want us to be here

[rax]

"Well, this is a resting place for the dead. I imagine that whoever first built this didn't want anyone poking about down here either," Cassian adds.

"Alas, disabling traps is not something a cataphract of Taldor trains for. I applaud your suggestion for making the passage safe, but returning to the room where we battled the derro takes us back through the room with the giant insect-beasts, and manhandling a table through there runs the risk of waking them up. I'd rather we press on and mind where we put our feet."

[farothel]

"It's just through the corridor with the snakes to the table," Ciraneoth said, "and I just wanted to make sure should we have to ... evacuate quickly, nobody forgets in the rush. Now everybody remembers, when in panic, probably not so much. But as I said, if you have other means of blocking it, go ahead."

[DrK]

Looking around the previous room (the exsanguination room) does have blood stained tables within it, and upon a second glance you realise that the stirges are safely contained with the cage so even if they wake they would still be trapped within the bars of the cage. It takes a few minutes but snapping the legs off the table allows a few planks of bloodied wood to be freed and after placing then on the now flat legs to make a small bridge you are able to cross safely over the trapped flag stones. A well shaped skull and spinal fragment from the dead skeletons also allows most of the nozzles of the skulls to be occluded to block whatever spray may be about to come out of them.

THe door beyond is heavy but opens and you can see the tone of the walls and floor changes here. Similar to the skull tunnel the ground is flag stones of worn dark stone and the walls are manufactured with neat tiles, albeit many with skulls jutting from them. The room itself is quite a large chamber some 10 yards wide by 15 yards long (as you are entering by the extreme NW corner). 2 large tables of ancient looking white bleached wood fill the centre of the chamber and are stacked with vials, beakers and other alchemical gear. On the far side of the room spaced evenly down the eastern wall are 3 massive cauldrons, each large enough to fit a stout dwarf in. A small fire of burning alchemical fire bubbles underneath the central one and a thick gloopy whitish fatty liquid boils in it along with an awful and vile stench....

Bent over the second table (so ~8 yards away) a pair of derro are leant over the table pouring what appears to be visceral fluids into a series of vials and doing something... As you enter the room they look up and snarl, one reaching for a vial at his belt, the other starting to mutter arcane words




Players can go first as they have a surprise round

[farothel]

Ciraneoth doesn't hesitate and immediately starts shooting. First on the guy with the vial and if he's taken out, the other one.

Spoiler: OOC surprise round

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attack 1 (on alchemist): (1d100)[3] vs 66 for damage: (1d10+3)[11]
attack 2 (on alchemist if still alive, otherwise the other): (1d100)[62] vs 66 for damage: (1d10+3)[9]

[wilphe]

Winifred aims at the caster

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Half Action - Aim
Half Action - Shoot at caster
(1d100)[33] 51
(1d10)[10]+3

(1d10)[7] Init+4

[Haval]

Having learnt his lesson from trying to be diplomatic earlier Andrei will try to put the caster down as quickly as possible.

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Half Action - Channel
Half Action - Magic Dart the caster

vs. Wp 51 (+10 Aetheric Attunement) (+10 Derro Necklace)
(1d100)[73]

Casting roll 6+ or 5+
(1d10)[6]

Any damage
(1d10+3)[8]

[rax]

Cassian waits long enough for his companions to unleash their attacks, then charges the closest survivor if there is one...

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Full action: Charge attack (1d100)[54] vs. 62 (WS 52, Charge +10)
Damage (1d10+4)[12]

Ulric's Fury if applicable
(1d100)[78]
(1d10)[6]

Pre-emptive Parry with shield (1d100)[22] vs. 62 (WS 52, Defensive +10)
Pre-emptive Dodge (1d100)[38] vs. 34 (Ag 44, mail -10)

Wounds remaining: 13/13
Fortune Points remaining: 2/3

[DrK]

Its a blood batch... crucially though, its small underdark Derro blood. Arrows slam into both Derros, the one from Winifred brutal as its shatters the creature's arm with brutal accuracy. A sizzling bolt of magical energy hits the Derro sorcerer and he explodes into gobbest of flesh as Cassian runs up and hacks once into the alchemist who, with a sword in his gut and an arrow in his chest expires messily on the floor. The alcehmmical lab here though looks like its been damaged. But not by you!

Searching the around you find in the shelves a range of potions and alchemical supplies, a trio of dark blue salves that small faintly of mint, a second potion that appears to look like quicksilver and three scrolls written in flowing elven script that attracts the winds of magic swirling around them

ALchemical or Arcane skills can help idenify them

Aside from them you also find three vials of alchemists fire that would be good for setting fires. A door to the south offers one way out, but appears to have been barred shut from this side so as to suggest trapping something winthin it and a dark tunnel leads off to the east... a faint cry or whimper echoing from that way.

[wilphe]

Good job

Winifred will listen at the barred door then search the bodies if someone else hasn't got there first

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(1d100)[83] Perception 51
(1d100)[82] Search 41

[rax]

Cassian nods in satisfaction at how quickly the enemy were felled. Pausing to wipe his blade clean, he waits for his more knowledgeable companions to try and identify the various potions and scrolls found in the room.

When Winifred is done listening at the barred door, he ventures an opinion. "The sounds from the eastern tunnel indicate someone or something in distress. Whatever is behind the barred door isn't going anywhere, so I suggest we seek out the source of the sounds first. It may be that there's someone in need of our assistance."

[farothel]

Ciraneoth had seen the elven script on the scrolls, but he hadn't learned how to read and even if he had, he wasn't going to read something obviously magical. He wasn't stupid, or at least not that stupid. He would leave that to the experts. He did however help to search the room.
"Anybody knows these potions," he asked as he looked at them, trying to see if there were some he had seen before and therefore might recognise.

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search: (1d100)[46] vs 49
if it helps identifying healing potions and/or equipment: heal: (1d100)[57] vs 49

[Haval]

Its a blood batch... crucially though, its small underdark Derro blood. Arrows slam into both Derros, the one from Winifred brutal as its shatters the creature's arm with brutal accuracy. A sizzling bolt of magical energy hits the Derro sorcerer and he explodes into gobbest of flesh as Cassian runs up and hacks once into the alchemist who, with a sword in his gut and an arrow in his chest expires messily on the floor. The alcehmmical lab here though looks like its been damaged. But not by you!

'Are the Derro intruders here?' Andrei asks. He'll attempt to identify some of the contents of the lab.

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Academic Knowledge (Magic) for everything
vs. Int 53

The salves
(1d100)[77]

The quicksilver potion
(1d100)[13]

Speak Arcane Language (Magic) to read the scrolls
vs. Int 53
(1d100)[26]

[wilphe]

"The sounds from the eastern tunnel indicate someone or something in distress. Whatever is behind the barred door isn't going anywhere, so I suggest we seek out the source of the sounds first. It may be that there's someone in need of our assistance."

Could be a prisoner here or some other ally, but I don't hear anything so let's go.

But be careful that might be an illusion to make us blunder into another trap

[rax]

"This is supposed to be a resting place for the dead. I would say that anyone living is a trespasser here," Cassian answers Andrei in a subdued voice.